Blue Thunder - Season 1 - Eps 3: Arms Race

Name: Eps 3: Arms Race
Released: 1984-01-20
Rating: 3.5

1984-01-20 • 49 min • ⭐ 6.9/10

Aggie Mills, an former flame of Chaney's who he knew back in the Vietnam War, comes for help via the FBI to distort a much-growing drugs & gun smuggling ring, extending to more places than just Los Angeles. When the first operation is not a success, and turns out to be a smokescreen, Bubba and Ski are assigned to go undercover as truck mechanics, but they also accidentally discover that Aggie Mills is not all what she says she is, and happens to be associating with the man in-charge of the whole operation, Harold Longstreet. When Bubba and Ski are caught red-handed while placing a radar receiver on one of the trucks, in order for Chaney and Braddock to know where the drugs and the weapons are being ferried from, its a race against time for Chaney and Wonderlove to save their two crew members, and prevent Longstreet and Mills from getting away, unconvicted.

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About Blue Thunder

Title: Blue Thunder

First Air Date: 1984-01-06

Last Air Date: 1984-04-16

Status: Canceled

Rating: 6.9/10 (from 118 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 11

Network: ABC

Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television, Rastar Productions

Synopsis

Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. This was a large support van with a desert camouflage off-road vehicle stored inside. The television series cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series was canceled by ABC after they felt the similar Airwolf on CBS would win the ratings battle. Also, the series aired at the same time as the CBS soap opera Dallas on Friday nights, and lost. Eleven episodes were made before the series was cancelled.